Subj : Re: What's Your Go-to OS
To   : GAMGEE
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Fri Feb 21 2025 10:24:00

>  DW> that can no longer be installed on new machines via apt.  I recently
>  DW> got a new system and tried to put Gnome on it, but the "classic/lite"
>  DW> version it installed isn't what the laptop has.  It was something
>  DW> newer, so I went with a mix of LxQT and IceWM instead.

> Yup, I was a Gnome user LONG ago, in the Mandrake Linux days, if your
> memory goes that far back.  Early 2000's.  Loved it then.

I do.  Mandrake was one of the first distros I tried and I found its installer
frustrating.  It was the only graphic installer that would *perfectly* set
up my video settings during installation.  It looked so good I was very,
very disappointed that the installer didn't set the desktop video settings
correctly.  It always came out an unusable mess.  :(

I wound up using Corel for a brief while (a debian fork, IIRC) before
moving to Libranet, another debian distro.  The maintainer of that one
passed away, so I migrated to debian proper.

Before all that, I used a CLI only Slackware distro called, IIRC, Zipslack.
 It ran "on top of" the DOS file system so you could play with it on a DOS
machine.  It was more of a command-line learning experience but it was enough
to let me know I could handle migrating once the time came.

Regarding Gnome:

> You're right
> though, it went through (I think) 2 version upgrades and became
> something I could no longer use.  Reminded me of a Fisher-Price baby
> toy.  ;-)

YES!  Honestly, to me, it looked like it was created for use on a touch
screen system which, since I don't use one, made it real frustrating to try
to use.


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